Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-08 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 8 January 2007 21:16, Nico Schümann wrote: > Hi folks, > > I recently set up a Core 2 duo system. Following the AMD64 howto, the > system now works. Kernel compilation took 1:40 minutes passing -j6 to > make. > > Then I tried to bunzip a large file and found out that the machine was > ab

Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 08 January 2007 14:16, "Nico Schümann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions': > Then I tried to bunzip a large file and found out that the machine was > about 40 % in idle which is clear because bzip2 is only one process. > So is

Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/8/07, Nico Schümann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: thread-using way? It's not that nice to see the machine in idle at all^^ Maybe there's any hidden use flag I haven't heard of or so :) Just turn on disk encryption with dm-crypt. That will take care of the "extra core is idle" problem! ;-> -

Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-09 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/9/07, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/8/07, Nico Schümann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thread-using way? It's not that nice to see the machine in idle at > all^^ Maybe there's any hidden use flag I haven't heard of or so :) Just turn on disk encryption with dm-crypt. That will

RE: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-09 Thread
> -Original Message- > From: Kent Fredric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 09 January 2007 18:48 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program > versions > > > On 1/9/07, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 10 January 2007 09:46, Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote: > Regarding pbzip2, by the way, I gave it a shot last night. Definately > faster for the type of archive I was compressing (mp3s in a tar archive). > If I remember rightly it was approx 1min30s vs 0min50s. Not quite twice as > fast, but a

RE: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-10 Thread
-Original Message- From: Uwe Thiem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 January 2007 08:40 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions > > >On 10 January 2007 09:46, Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote: > >> Re

Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-10 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 12:20, Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote: > By about 1% agreed MP3s are a poor example but it was late last > night and I didn't have time to mess around with it much. Going to try > with a mix of documents (word processed documents, text, pictures, > some video) to

RE: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-10 Thread
> -Original Message- > From: Etaoin Shrdlu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 10 January 2007 12:15 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program > versions > > > By about 1% agreed MP3s are a poor e

Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 10 January 2007 13:20, Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Uwe Thiem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 10 January 2007 08:40 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program > versions &